Files are a really important part of a project. In Apollo you can upload files to comments, messages and projects; this feature is critical as sometimes — as they say — a picture is worth a thousand words.

When we designed Apollo, we decided that we could create some really good notification emails without using HTML. There are, no doubts, several advantages when you use text-only emails: spam filters never seem to bother you; there is never a formatting problem (and believe me, different email clients can render things very differently); finally, they are easier to generate.

Some things slip. Programmers are not perfect, and with just so much going on with Apollo's development, sometimes we make mistakes. Well, the "Affiliate" entry in the Settings menu was a bit of a slip.

When that entry appeared, we had a lot of enquiries about the program. Users seemed to be most worried about the program being available only to US people, or having complicated forms to join.

Writeboards are one of the most exciting features in Apollo this year. As you probably guessed, we use Apollo internally to coordinate Apollo's development and tasks. Writeboards were one of those features that was meant to be developed "slowly", without hurry, as they were quite involved in terms of UI and development.

AS soon as they were available as betas, something predictable but not-so-unexpected happened: we started using them; and no, they weren't polished, tested and fully functional.

We are working hard on improving Apollo more and more. We will make some big announcements in the coming weeks. However, we realise that our users are feature-thirsty, and also work on smaller improvements that will tend to make your life easier -- and more fun. Let's see what they are.

Create a project from a template, without adding entries in the activity

A lot of people have very active workspaces. When a project is created using a template, the activity log gets suddenly filled up with a lot of entries.

Last week, we introduced a new feature where you could finally move elements across projects. When we did, we received the usual (and gratifying) lot of emails to thank us for the new feature -- and obviously asking for more.

One of the common "complaints" was that we didn't allow users to move milestones across projects. We didn't think it would be that important -- and we were wrong!